How you can make money with Pinterest as a New Blogger (2024)

Getting enough traffic to your blog to start making a regular income selling your own products or services can take a while.

That’s why using Pinterest as a source of income is a great idea if you are a beginner blogger. And the best thing is that it doesn’t take a lot of extra work to set things up.
So what do you need to make money with Pinterest?

The good thing about Pinterest is that you don’t need a lot of followers, but obviously you still need to have some.

I started making money with Pinterest with under 200 followers for some of my profiles. And I followed the steps explained by McKinzie Bean fromMomsmakecentsin her coursePin to Profits: Affiliate Marketing course.

I chose her course cos I didn’t have a clue about what to do, needed something that would start giving me results and wasn’t too time-consuming or expensive to do.

It started quite slowly, to be honest. You need people to see your pins for this to work, so the more followers you have the better. But that’s where Group Boards helped me.

This is where new bloggers can find big audiences. Even if you have a small number of followers, by posting to group boards your pin can reach thousands of people.

Even though Pinterest may now give more importance in the feed to your own boards, you will need them until you have enough followers of your own.

Apply to as many as you can at first, until you know which boards are good for you.

For beginner bloggers, I’d recommend joining an affiliate network.

One of these networks will give you access to products and merchants in many different niches, so you can always find something to use but payments and all the admin are done through the network. It keeps things simple.ShareasaleandAWIN are two of the best for beginners, in my opinion.

Amazon Affiliatesis also easy to get into but it usually takes a little while to build up the money before you get paid (also if you useOne Linkto monetise traffic from other countries, cos the money is kept separate for each country).

The earlier you join Amazon Affiliates the better. Don’t’ expect to get $100s every month from Amazon, though!TIP: Amazon affiliates is good for craft tutorials, mommy blogs, beauty blogs or when a merchant doesn’t have their own affiliate program but they sell through Amazon.

Some of the best affiliate programs for bloggers are the ones for tools you use.

They are usually quite generous, offer recurring payments, if appropriate, and have longish cookies. So your readers don’t have to buy now, they can buy something in 10 days or 30 days and you still get your commission!

For instance, I use Dripfor my email marketing,Sitegroundfor my web hosting,Tailwind,BoardBoosterandSmarterqueuefor my scheduling, and I love them, so I am happy to recommend them.

It’s also easy for me to write blog posts and emails about them because I know how everything works.

You can do this even if you don’t blog about marketing or blogging, by the way. You can have a resources page or a small section of your blog that talks about blogging for people in your niche.

Basically, the more blog posts you have, the more money you can potentially make with Pinterest and your blog.

You should include affiliate links (the special link each affiliate has for each product) in ALL your blog postsfrom the start.

You can add links to text, to your images, or add some banners and even videos to your blog posts and when somebody clicks on them and they buy, you get your commission.

I know, I know. unless you’re a very prolific writer, you’re not going to have a lot of content at the beginning. But it’s important that you start putting things in place so when you start getting more traffic you can make the most of it.

Don’t despair if you don’t have a lot of content yet, here’s where Pinterest really helps:

The good thing about using Pinterest for affiliate marketing is that you don’t even need to have a blog post for each product.

You can now use pins to link directly to the product you are recommending.

You don’t even need a blog, as McKinzie’s course shows you.

Affiliate marketing is a numbers game.

You’ll get a percentage of people thatclick on your pin.

Out of these people, a percentage of people that read the post will click on anaffiliatelink. Then, out of these people, a small number will actually buy the product.

So out of 1000 of people that read your blog post, you could get 5 or 10 actually buying it, depending on your conversion rate.

But if you are using pins to link directly to the products, you’re making this path much shorter. When your followers (or anybody that finds your pin on Pinterest) click on your pin, they go straight to the landing page.

Another reason is that it takes a while to create all the blog content you need, doesn’t it? But it can take you 10-15 minutes to have 2 or 3 new pins for one of the products. And another 5 minutes to schedule them inTailwind and you’re done!

You need to have a variety of pinnable images for your blog posts and the products you recommend.

One thing I learnt from McKinzie is that it’s not just about using the right colours or the right fonts or the right design, it is about getting your followers to click on your pin. Once they’ve clicked on it, they can read all the info and decide if it’s for them.

Having several images also means that you’re not repeating the same pins all the time in group boards.

And you learn which pins get you more click throughs and more sales, so your pin design becomes more effective.Inher course, McKinzie goes over pin design principles and shows you how she usesCanvato create her pins.

I preferStencil, though, because it’s much faster to use and there are lots of images and icons that look great in social media images. True, it doesn’t have as many templates as Canva. But keeping things simple can also save you a lot of time.

It can take a little care and attention to get pin descriptions right so you get more conversions.

You want to get as many people as you can clicking through.

So your pin descriptions should include keywords that people are going to be looking for as well as hashtags.

But when it comes to the text you are trying to convince people to click and buy so you can use calls to action, a description of what the product is, what you think about it…

My tip here would be to use the same image and try different pin descriptions to see which one works best and schedule them so they are not together on your boards.

Your Pinterest traffic will grow if you are consistent with your pinning. That's why you have to do it regularly and you must follow a system. Otherwise, you won’t know what you’ve been pinning and you might be wasting your time.

So, although I try to do a bit of manual pinning every day, in my opinion, you should use a scheduler likeTailwind as well, cos it gives you the flexibility you need to pin as many pins and as often as you want and you can use Tailwind Tribes too.

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